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file picker update

DramaticShape · 2026-08-04 · parent 0e22393ec7

file picker update

Changed files

lib/StadiumRomPick.lua    | 239 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 tests/stadium_anim_qa.lua | 496 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 tests/stadium_import.lua  | 131 ++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 866 insertions(+)

Diff

diff --git a/lib/StadiumRomPick.lua b/lib/StadiumRomPick.lua
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..068221a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/StadiumRomPick.lua
@@ -0,0 +1,239 @@
+-- STADIUM battles: importing the ROM, instead of being told where to put it.
+--
+-- The mod ships no Pokemon Stadium models and cannot -- they are that game's
+-- data -- so the player supplies the cartridge. The original instruction for
+-- that was "make a folder called baseroms next to the game and drop the file
+-- in it", which is a fine sentence to write and a poor thing to ask. It needs
+-- a folder the player has to create, in a place that is different on every
+-- platform and is inside an unwritable archive on a packaged build, and it
+-- fails SILENTLY: the two STADIUM rungs are simply not on the row, and
+-- nothing on screen says why.
+--
+-- So this opens a file picker instead, from a row on the OPTIONS menu, and
+-- the folder keeps working for anyone who prefers it (StadiumInstall).
+--
+-- ------- the picker is the host's, not LOVE's
+--
+-- LOVE 11.5 has no file dialog. love.window.showFileDialog arrived in 12 and
+-- love.system.pickFile is a native bridge this project ships for mobile
+-- rather than part of LOVE at all. What every desktop OS does have is a
+-- dialog reachable from a shell, so that is what is used here -- osascript on
+-- macOS, PowerShell's OpenFileDialog on Windows, zenity then kdialog on
+-- Linux.
+--
+-- This is deliberately the SAME four commands the engine's own ROM importer
+-- uses for the Game Boy cartridge (src/import/RomImporter.lua's chooseRom),
+-- down to writing the Windows pick as UTF-8 -- the console's OEM codepage
+-- mangles a non-ASCII path into something that crashes the next text draw.
+-- Being a second copy of that is worth it: a mod cannot call into the
+-- importer's private helpers, and the alternative is asking the engine to
+-- grow a seam for one caller.
+--
+-- The dialog BLOCKS. io.popen waits for the player to choose, and the game is
+-- frozen for as long as it is up. That is what the engine's importer does
+-- too, it is what a modal dialog means, and the frame it freezes on is an
+-- options menu.
+--
+-- ------- and the ROM is not kept
+--
+-- The picked file is read, built from, and forgotten -- nothing is copied
+-- anywhere. A Stadium cartridge is 32 MB and the models built out of it are
+-- 34, so keeping both would double the cost of a feature for a file that has
+-- no further use: the packs are what the game reads afterwards, and the
+-- marker records the ROM's md5 so a swapped cartridge is still noticed.
+--
+-- The one thing that costs is a format bump, which invalidates the packs and
+-- leaves nothing to rebuild from. That is what the row still being there is
+-- for -- it reads READY, and pressing it imports again.
+
+-- the mod namespace (see main.lua): V.require loads a sibling module
+local V = ...
+
+local StadiumInstall = V.require("StadiumInstall")
+
+local StadiumRomPick = {}
+
+StadiumRomPick.LABEL = "STADIUM ROM"
+StadiumRomPick.ID = "DRAMATIC_SHAPE:stadiumRom"
+
+local PROMPT = "Choose your Pokemon Stadium ROM"
+
+-- ------- the host, at arm's length
+--
+-- Everything below is read through pcall and a presence test. The mod loader
+-- hands a mod the real `io` and `os` today, but a mod that TAKES that for
+-- granted is one that stops loading the day a sandbox arrives -- and this is
+-- a convenience on top of a folder scan that works without any of it.
+
+local function haveShell()
+  local ok, popen = pcall(function() return io and io.popen end)
+  return (ok and popen) and true or false
+end
+
+local function haveFiles()
+  local ok, open = pcall(function() return io and io.open end)
+  return (ok and open) and true or false
+end
+
+local function osName()
+  local ok, name = pcall(function() return love.system.getOS() end)
+  return ok and name or nil
+end
+
+-- Run a command and return its trimmed stdout, or nil for anything that did
+-- not produce a line -- a cancelled dialog, a missing zenity, a shell that
+-- is not there.
+local function commandOutput(cmd)
+  if not haveShell() then return nil end
+  local ok, pipe = pcall(io.popen, cmd)
+  if not (ok and pipe) then return nil end
+  local okRead, out = pcall(pipe.read, pipe, "*a")
+  pcall(pipe.close, pipe)
+  if not (okRead and type(out) == "string") then return nil end
+  out = out:gsub("^%s+", ""):gsub("%s+$", "")
+  return (out ~= "") and out or nil
+end
+
+-- ------- can this machine open one at all
+--
+-- Desktop only, and honestly so. On ANDROID the picker is a native bridge
+-- (love.system.pickFile) whose kind -> filename mapping is a fixed list of
+-- three in the engine's own C++, and an unrecognised kind falls through to
+-- `picked_rom.gb` -- which is the file the engine's Game Boy importer is
+-- watching. Calling it for a 32 MB N64 ROM would hand that to the wrong
+-- importer, so it is not called.
+--
+-- Android does not need it as badly, either: conf.lua points the save
+-- directory at the app's external-files folder, so `baseroms/` there is
+-- reachable over USB or any file manager with no root and no permission
+-- prompt, which is the flow the engine's own comment describes for
+-- picker-less builds.
+function StadiumRomPick.available()
+  if not (haveShell() and haveFiles()) then return false end
+  local p = osName()
+  return p == "Windows" or p == "OS X" or p == "Linux"
+end
+
+-- Open the dialog. Returns the chosen absolute path, or nil when the player
+-- cancelled or no dialog could be opened.
+function StadiumRomPick.choose()
+  local p = osName()
+  if p == "OS X" then
+    return commandOutput(
+      ([[osascript -e 'POSIX path of (choose file with prompt "%s" of type ]]
+       .. [[{"z64", "n64", "v64"})' 2>/dev/null]]):format(PROMPT))
+  elseif p == "Windows" then
+    local script = table.concat({
+      "Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms;",
+      "$d=New-Object System.Windows.Forms.OpenFileDialog;",
+      "$d.Title='" .. PROMPT .. "';",
+      "$d.Filter='Nintendo 64 ROM (*.z64;*.n64;*.v64)|*.z64;*.n64;*.v64"
+      .. "|All files (*.*)|*.*';",
+      -- as UTF-8: the console's OEM codepage would mangle a non-ASCII path
+      -- and crash the next text draw that showed it
+      "if($d.ShowDialog() -eq 'OK'){[Console]::OutputEncoding="
+      .. "[Text.Encoding]::UTF8; [Console]::Write($d.FileName)}",
+    })
+    return commandOutput(
+      'powershell -NoProfile -STA -Command "' .. script .. '"')
+  elseif p == "Linux" then
+    local path = commandOutput(
+      ([[zenity --file-selection --title="%s" ]]
+       .. [[--file-filter="Nintendo 64 ROM | *.z64 *.n64 *.v64" 2>/dev/null]])
+        :format(PROMPT))
+    if path then return path end
+    -- zenity is absent on plenty of installs (and on most handheld Linux
+    -- distributions); KDE's own dialog is the usual second answer
+    return commandOutput(
+      [[kdialog --getopenfilename "$HOME" "*.z64 *.n64 *.v64|]]
+      .. [[Nintendo 64 ROM" 2>/dev/null]])
+  end
+  return nil
+end
+
+-- Read an ABSOLUTE path, which love.filesystem cannot: it only sees inside
+-- the physfs mount, and a picked file is anywhere on the disk. Returns the
+-- bytes, or nil plus a reason short enough to fit the loading screen.
+function StadiumRomPick.read(path)
+  if not haveFiles() then return nil, "no file access" end
+  local ok, fp = pcall(io.open, path, "rb")
+  if not (ok and fp) then return nil, "could not open that file" end
+  local okRead, bytes = pcall(fp.read, fp, "*a")
+  pcall(fp.close, fp)
+  if not (okRead and type(bytes) == "string" and #bytes > 0) then
+    return nil, "could not read that file"
+  end
+  return bytes
+end
+
+-- ------- the whole flow, from one keypress
+--
+-- Pick, read, start the build, and put the loading screen up over whatever
+-- asked -- which is the OPTIONS menu, so the row is there again underneath
+-- when the build finishes and now reads READY.
+--
+-- A CANCELLED dialog is not a failure and says nothing: the player opened a
+-- file browser and changed their mind, and a mod that made an announcement
+-- about that would be the second most annoying thing on the menu.
+--
+-- Everything else lands on the loading screen's own failure state, because it
+-- is the one surface in this mode with room for a sentence -- and because a
+-- player who has just chosen the wrong file is owed a reason and not a row
+-- that quietly goes on saying IMPORT.
+function StadiumRomPick.import(game)
+  if StadiumInstall.status.state == "building" then return false end
+  local path = StadiumRomPick.choose()
+  if not path then return false end
+
+  local StadiumScreen = V.require("StadiumScreen")
+  local function fail(why)
+    StadiumInstall.status.state = "failed"
+    StadiumInstall.status.error = why
+    if game and game.stack then
+      game.stack:push(StadiumScreen.new(game, true))
+    end
+    return false
+  end
+
+  local bytes, err = StadiumRomPick.read(path)
+  if not bytes then return fail(err or "could not read that file") end
+
+  local ok, beginErr = StadiumInstall.beginFrom(bytes, path)
+  if not ok then return fail(tostring(beginErr)) end
+  if game and game.stack then
+    game.stack:push(StadiumScreen.new(game, true))
+  end
+  return true
+end
+
+-- ------- the row
+--
+-- An ACTION rather than a value, which is why it is not a ModSetting: there
+-- is no rung to store, nothing for the mod manager's page to persist, and
+-- nothing to restore on the next boot. What it shows is a STATE -- the models
+-- are there or they are not -- and what it does is the only thing it can do.
+--
+-- Still offered once they ARE there, reading READY. Pressing it imports
+-- again, which is how a player swaps to a different revision, and how they
+-- rebuild after a format bump has invalidated the packs and left nothing on
+-- disk to rebuild from (see the header: the ROM is not kept).
+--
+-- nil where no dialog can be opened, which takes the row off the menu
+-- entirely rather than offering a button that cannot do anything.
+function StadiumRomPick.row()
+  if not StadiumRomPick.available() then return nil end
+  return {
+    id = StadiumRomPick.ID,
+    label = StadiumRomPick.LABEL,
+    value = function()
+      if StadiumInstall.status.state == "building" then return "BUILDING" end
+      return StadiumInstall.available() and "READY" or "IMPORT"
+    end,
+    step = function(game)
+      pcall(StadiumRomPick.import, game)
+      return true
+    end,
+  }
+end
+
+return StadiumRomPick
diff --git a/tests/stadium_anim_qa.lua b/tests/stadium_anim_qa.lua
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..659191d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/stadium_anim_qa.lua
@@ -0,0 +1,496 @@
+-- STADIUM battles: every Pokemon, every animation, every frame.
+--
+--   luajit mods/DramaticShapeVoxelMod/tests/stadium_anim_qa.lua \
+--     [--packs=DIR] [--dex=N[,N...]] [--step=0.5] [--quiet]
+--
+-- Run from the PROJECT ROOT.
+--
+-- ------- what this is for
+--
+-- A battle asks a species for one of its animations and then poses, skins,
+-- re-textures and draws it sixty times a second. Nothing in that chain is
+-- exercised by the pack probe, which reads the format and walks a bind pose,
+-- and nothing in it is exercised by the shot drivers, which show one species
+-- in one animation at a time. So the failures that only some species have --
+-- a texture index nothing maps, an animation that throws a bone into orbit,
+-- a track that indexes off its own end -- have had no way of being found
+-- except by a player calling that Pokemon out.
+--
+-- This is that sweep, headless: the REAL StadiumPack, the REAL StadiumRig
+-- and the REAL StadiumMon over stubs for the three things a graphics context
+-- provides (a mesh, an image, the draw call). Every species, every animation
+-- it carries, every frame of it, plus the battle state machine over every
+-- one of the 165 move slots.
+--
+-- ------- the stubs are not lenient
+--
+-- The fake mesh and the fake image behave like LOVE's do in the one way that
+-- matters: an object that has been released THROWS when it is used, with
+-- LOVE's own message. That is deliberate -- a released texture reaching a
+-- draw call is a real failure mode of this mode (see the LRU note in
+-- StadiumPack), and a stub that quietly accepted one would hide exactly the
+-- class of bug this sweep exists to find.
+
+local args = {}
+local only = nil
+for _, a in ipairs({ ... }) do
+  local k, v = a:match("^%-%-([%w_]+)=(.*)$")
+  if k then args[k] = v elseif a == "--quiet" then args.quiet = "1" end
+end
+if args.dex then
+  only = {}
+  for n in args.dex:gmatch("%d+") do only[#only + 1] = tonumber(n) end
+end
+
+local MOD = "mods/DramaticShapeVoxelMod"
+
+-- Where the .dsm packs are. The mod builds them into LOVE's save directory
+-- on first run (StadiumInstall), which is where a developer machine actually
+-- has them; a checkout that has run tools/stadium_pack.py has them in the
+-- mod instead. Both are tried, and --packs overrides.
+local PACK_DIRS = {}
+local function lookIn(dir)
+  if dir and dir ~= "" then PACK_DIRS[#PACK_DIRS + 1] = dir end
+end
+lookIn(args.packs)
+lookIn(os.getenv("APPDATA")
+       and os.getenv("APPDATA") .. "/LOVE/pokemon-love2d/dramatic_shape/stadium")
+lookIn(os.getenv("HOME")
+       and os.getenv("HOME")
+           .. "/.local/share/love/pokemon-love2d/dramatic_shape/stadium")
+lookIn(MOD .. "/assets/stadium")
+
+-- How far apart the sampled frames are, in the animation's own 30 Hz frames.
+-- A half frame rather than a whole one because the rig INTERPOLATES between
+-- entries, and the blend has guards of its own that only run when k > 0 --
+-- sampling on whole frames alone would never execute them.
+local STEP = tonumber(args.step or "0.5")
+
+-- How much taller than its own bind pose a posed model may stand before it
+-- is called broken. Generous on purpose: a Pokemon that rears up, a wing
+-- that opens, a Gyarados that lunges are all genuinely several times their
+-- standing height. What this catches is the other thing -- a bone thrown
+-- hundreds of units off the body, which comes out in the dozens.
+local EXPLODE = 6.0
+
+-- ------- the harness
+
+package.path = "./?.lua;./?/init.lua;" .. package.path
+
+local packDir = nil
+for _, dir in ipairs(PACK_DIRS) do
+  if dir and dir ~= "" then
+    local fp = io.open(dir .. "/001.dsm", "rb")
+    if fp then fp:close() packDir = dir break end
+  end
+end
+if not packDir then
+  print("no .dsm packs found -- pass --packs=DIR")
+  print("looked in:")
+  for _, dir in ipairs(PACK_DIRS) do
+    if dir and dir ~= "" then print("  " .. dir) end
+  end
+  os.exit(1)
+end
+
+local function readFile(path)
+  local fp = io.open(path, "rb")
+  if not fp then return nil end
+  local bytes = fp:read("*a")
+  fp:close()
+  return bytes
+end
+
+-- ------- the three things a graphics context provides
+--
+-- A released object throws, exactly as LOVE's does. See the header.
+
+local RELEASED = "Cannot use object after it has been released."
+
+local function checkLive(obj)
+  if obj and obj.released then error(RELEASED, 0) end
+end
+
+local function newFakeImage(w, h)
+  local img = { w = w, h = h, released = false }
+  function img:setFilter() checkLive(self) end
+  function img:setWrap() checkLive(self) end
+  function img:release() self.released = true return true end
+  function img:type() return "Image" end
+  return img
+end
+
+local function newFakeMesh(format, rows)
+  local mesh = { released = false, verts = rows }
+  function mesh:setVertexMap() checkLive(self) end
+  function mesh:setVertices(v) checkLive(self) self.verts = v end
+  function mesh:setTexture(t) checkLive(self) checkLive(t) self.tex = t end
+  function mesh:release() self.released = true return true end
+  function mesh:type() return "Mesh" end
+  return mesh
+end
+
+love = {
+  filesystem = {
+    getInfo = function(rel)
+      -- the mod asks for "dramatic_shape/stadium/NNN.dsm" relative to the
+      -- save directory; the sweep serves that out of packDir
+      local name = rel:match("([^/]+)$")
+      local fp = io.open(packDir .. "/" .. name, "rb")
+      if not fp then return nil end
+      fp:close()
+      return { type = "file" }
+    end,
+    read = function(rel)
+      local name = rel:match("([^/]+)$")
+      return readFile(packDir .. "/" .. name)
+    end,
+  },
+  graphics = {
+    newMesh = function(format, rows, mode, usage) return newFakeMesh(format, rows) end,
+    newImage = function(data) return newFakeImage(data.w, data.h) end,
+  },
+  image = {
+    newImageData = function(w, h, fmt, bytes) return { w = w, h = h } end,
+  },
+}
+
+local V = {}
+local modules = {}
+V.mod = {
+  log = {
+    warn = function(_, fmt, ...) print("[warn] " .. fmt:format(...)) end,
+    info = function(_, fmt, ...) print("[info] " .. fmt:format(...)) end,
+  },
+  read = function(_, rel) return readFile(MOD .. "/" .. rel) end,
+}
+function V.require(name)
+  if modules[name] then return modules[name] end
+  local chunk = assert(loadfile(MOD .. "/lib/" .. name .. ".lua"))
+  modules[name] = chunk(V)
+  return modules[name]
+end
+
+-- Voxel3D, to the extent the rig touches it. `draw` mirrors the real one's
+-- first act -- binding the texture to the mesh -- because that is the line a
+-- released texture dies on (Voxel3D.draw), and the whole point of the stub
+-- is that it dies there here too.
+local drawn, skipped = 0, 0
+modules.Voxel3D = {
+  FORMAT = {},
+  seams = function() end,
+  glass = function() end,
+  blend = function() end,
+  draw = function(mesh, texture, model, pull, sunModel)
+    if not mesh then return end
+    if texture then mesh:setTexture(texture) end
+    drawn = drawn + 1
+  end,
+}
+-- the shadow pass, same shape
+local shadowMap = { draw = function(mesh, texture, model)
+  if texture then mesh:setTexture(texture) end
+end }
+
+local Pack = V.require("StadiumPack")
+local Rig = V.require("StadiumRig")
+local Mon = V.require("StadiumMon")
+
+-- ------- findings
+
+local findings = {}      -- kind -> { {dex=, anim=, frame=, detail=} ... }
+local kinds = {}         -- kind order, first seen first
+
+local function report(kind, dex, anim, frame, detail)
+  if not findings[kind] then
+    findings[kind] = {}
+    kinds[#kinds + 1] = kind
+  end
+  local list = findings[kind]
+  list[#list + 1] = { dex = dex, anim = anim, frame = frame, detail = detail }
+end
+
+-- ------- one animation, frame by frame
+
+local function bboxOf(rig)
+  local lo, hi = math.huge, -math.huge
+  local bad = false
+  for _, part in ipairs(rig.parts) do
+    local rows = part.rows
+    for k = 1, part.prim.vertCount do
+      local row = rows[k]
+      local x, y, z = row[1], row[2], row[3]
+      -- NaN is the only value not equal to itself; infinity survives that
+      -- test and has to be asked about separately
+      if x ~= x or y ~= y or z ~= z
+         or x == math.huge or x == -math.huge
+         or y == math.huge or y == -math.huge
+         or z == math.huge or z == -math.huge then
+        bad = true
+      else
+        if y < lo then lo = y end
+        if y > hi then hi = y end
+      end
+    end
+  end
+  if lo > hi then return 0, bad end
+  return hi - lo, bad
+end
+
+-- A species' worth of work. Returns the number of frames stepped.
+local function sweepSpecies(dex)
+  local model = Pack.load(dex)
+  if not model then
+    -- say WHY, or a sweep that ran out of file handles reads as 108 broken
+    -- Pokemon
+    local _, err = io.open(("%s/%03d.dsm"):format(packDir, dex), "rb")
+    report("pack did not load", dex, nil, nil,
+           ("StadiumPack.load returned nil (io.open says: %s)")
+           :format(tostring(err)))
+    return 0
+  end
+
+  local rig = Rig.new(model)
+  if not rig then
+    report("rig would not build", dex, nil, nil,
+           ("%d prims, %d bones"):format(model.primCount, model.boneCount))
+    return 0
+  end
+
+  -- the bind pose, as the yardstick every posed frame is measured against
+  rig:pose(nil, 0, false)
+  rig:skin(0)
+  local bind = bboxOf(rig)
+  if not (bind > 0) then bind = 1 end
+
+  local steps = 0
+  for index, anim in ipairs(model.anims) do
+    local name = anim.name or ("#" .. index)
+    local frames = anim.frames or 1
+    if frames < 1 then
+      report("animation has no frames", dex, name, nil,
+             ("frames=%d"):format(frames))
+    end
+    -- the loop start has to be inside the animation or the wrap arithmetic
+    -- lands outside the track arrays
+    local loop = anim.loopStart or 0
+    if loop < 0 or loop >= frames then
+      report("loopStart out of range", dex, name, nil,
+             ("loopStart=%d of %d frames"):format(loop, frames))
+    end
+    if anim.aux and not (model.auxAnims and model.auxAnims[anim.aux]) then
+      report("aux animation missing", dex, name, nil,
+             ("anim.aux=%s, %d aux animations")
+             :format(tostring(anim.aux), model.auxCount or 0))
+    end
+
+    -- Both ways round: a standby loop WRAPS at the far end and a faint HOLDS
+    -- on its last frame, and the two take different branches of the pose
+    -- walk. Sampled a little past the end on purpose -- that is where a
+    -- battle actually leaves them.
+    for _, wrap in ipairs({ true, false }) do
+      local f = 0
+      while f < frames + 2 do
+        local ok, err = pcall(function()
+          rig:pose(index, f, wrap)
+          rig:skin(0.5)
+          rig:textures(anim.aux)
+          rig:draw({ 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1 }, 0)
+        end)
+        steps = steps + 1
+        if not ok then
+          report("threw while playing", dex, name, f, tostring(err))
+          break
+        end
+        local h, bad = bboxOf(rig)
+        if bad then
+          report("posed vertex is NaN or infinite", dex, name, f, "")
+        elseif h > bind * EXPLODE then
+          report("pose flies apart", dex, name, f,
+                 ("%.0f units tall against a %.0f-unit bind pose (%.1fx)")
+                 :format(h, bind, h / bind))
+        end
+        -- every piece of the Pokemon has to have a texture to be drawn with;
+        -- one that resolves to nothing is a limb that is simply not there
+        for i, part in ipairs(rig.parts) do
+          if not part.texture then
+            report("part has no texture", dex, name, f,
+                   ("prim %d wants texture %s of %d")
+                   :format(i, tostring(part.prim.tex), model.texCount or 0))
+          end
+        end
+        f = f + STEP
+      end
+    end
+  end
+
+  -- ------- and the same species as a BATTLE drives it
+  --
+  -- The sweep above plays the animations; this plays the STATE MACHINE, which
+  -- is what a fight actually touches: the context slots behind idle, the
+  -- entrance, the two reactions and the collapse, and then all 165 move slots
+  -- -- because a move's animation is looked up by move id in a table the
+  -- species carries, and an index in that table that points nowhere is a
+  -- crash on the frame that move is used.
+  local mon = Mon.new("player")
+  mon.rig, mon.model, mon.species = rig, model, dex
+  mon.state, mon.anim, mon.time = nil, nil, 0
+
+  for _, state in ipairs({ "idle", "entrance", "hit", "flinch", "faint" }) do
+    local ok, err = pcall(function()
+      mon:play(state)
+      -- a whole second of it at 60 Hz, which is what the fight does
+      for _ = 1, 60 do
+        mon:update(1 / 60)
+        mon:build()
+      end
+    end)
+    if not ok then
+      report("threw while playing", dex, state, nil, tostring(err))
+    end
+  end
+
+  for moveIndex = 1, Pack.N_MOVES do
+    local slot = model.moveAnim[moveIndex]
+    if slot and slot ~= Pack.NONE then
+      if not model.anims[slot + 1] then
+        report("move points at an animation that is not there", dex,
+               ("move %d"):format(moveIndex), nil,
+               ("anim index %d of %d"):format(slot + 1, model.animCount or 0))
+      else
+        local aux = model.moveAux[moveIndex]
+        if aux and aux >= 0 and not (model.auxAnims and model.auxAnims[aux + 1]) then
+          report("move points at an aux that is not there", dex,
+                 ("move %d"):format(moveIndex), nil,
+                 ("aux index %d of %d"):format(aux + 1, model.auxCount or 0))
+        end
+        local ok, err = pcall(function()
+          mon:attack(moveIndex)
+          for _ = 1, 30 do
+            mon:update(1 / 60)
+            mon:build()
+          end
+        end)
+        if not ok then
+          report("threw while playing", dex, ("move %d"):format(moveIndex),
+                 nil, tostring(err))
+        end
+      end
+    end
+  end
+
+  rig:release()
+  return steps
+end
+
+-- ------- the sweep
+
+local list = only
+if not list then
+  list = {}
+  for dex = 1, 151 do list[dex] = dex end
+end
+
+local started = os.clock()
+local steps = 0
+local staticPose = {}
+for _, dex in ipairs(list) do
+  local ok, err = pcall(function() steps = steps + sweepSpecies(dex) end)
+  if not ok then
+    report("the sweep itself threw", dex, nil, nil, tostring(err))
+  end
+  local m = Pack.load(dex)
+  if m and m.staticPose then staticPose[#staticPose + 1] = dex end
+  if not args.quiet and dex % 10 == 0 then
+    io.write(("  ... %d/%d  %.0f MB\n")
+             :format(dex, #list, collectgarbage("count") / 1024))
+    io.flush()
+  end
+end
+
+-- ------- the LRU, which is the one failure a frame sweep cannot reach
+--
+-- A model is evicted by SPECIES COUNT, not by whether anything is still
+-- standing on it -- so a battle that has seen five species while two of them
+-- are on the field releases the textures of a Pokemon that is still being
+-- drawn. That is not something playing one species' animations can produce;
+-- it takes a sixth load. Reproduced here directly.
+local function sweepEviction()
+  local held = {}
+  -- two Pokemon out, as a battle has
+  for _, dex in ipairs({ 1, 4 }) do
+    local model = Pack.load(dex)
+    local rig = model and Rig.new(model)
+    if rig then held[#held + 1] = { dex = dex, model = model, rig = rig } end
+  end
+  if #held < 2 then return end
+  for _, h in ipairs(held) do
+    h.rig:pose(1, 0, true)
+    h.rig:skin(0)
+    h.rig:textures(nil)
+  end
+  -- and then the fight sees more species than the cache keeps
+  for _, dex in ipairs({ 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 25 }) do Pack.load(dex) end
+  for _, h in ipairs(held) do
+    local ok, err = pcall(function()
+      h.rig:textures(nil)
+      h.rig:draw({ 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1 }, 0)
+    end)
+    if not ok then
+      report("threw after the pack cache evicted a model still on the field",
+             h.dex, "idle", nil, tostring(err))
+    end
+  end
+  for _, h in ipairs(held) do h.rig:release() end
+end
+sweepEviction()
+
+local elapsed = os.clock() - started
+
+-- ------- what it found
+
+print("")
+print(("stadium animation QA: %d species, %d posed frames, %.1fs")
+      :format(#list, steps, elapsed))
+print(("packs: %s"):format(packDir))
+if #staticPose > 0 then
+  print(("staticPose (declined by the packer, never drawn): %s")
+        :format(table.concat(staticPose, " ")))
+end
+print("")
+
+local total = 0
+for _, kind in ipairs(kinds) do total = total + #findings[kind] end
+
+if total == 0 then
+  print("no findings")
+  os.exit(0)
+end
+
+for _, kind in ipairs(kinds) do
+  local list2 = findings[kind]
+  print(("---- %s (%d)"):format(kind, #list2))
+  -- one line per species per kind, with the first example and a count, so a
+  -- fault that spans every frame of an animation reads as one fault
+  local seen, order = {}, {}
+  for _, f in ipairs(list2) do
+    local key = ("%03d|%s"):format(f.dex or 0, tostring(f.anim))
+    if not seen[key] then
+      seen[key] = { n = 0, f = f }
+      order[#order + 1] = key
+    end
+    seen[key].n = seen[key].n + 1
+  end
+  for _, key in ipairs(order) do
+    local e = seen[key]
+    print(("  %03d %-14s %s%s%s")
+          :format(e.f.dex or 0, tostring(e.f.anim),
+                  e.f.frame and ("frame %.1f: "):format(e.f.frame) or "",
+                  e.detail or e.f.detail or "",
+                  e.n > 1 and (" (x%d)"):format(e.n) or ""))
+  end
+  print("")
+end
+
+print(("%d findings in %d kinds"):format(total, #kinds))
+os.exit(total > 0 and 1 or 0)
diff --git a/tests/stadium_import.lua b/tests/stadium_import.lua
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..eed2f11
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/stadium_import.lua
@@ -0,0 +1,131 @@
+-- Driver: import a Stadium ROM through the OPTIONS row, with the modal file
+-- dialog stubbed out.
+--
+-- Everything except the dialog itself is the real path: the row is built the
+-- way the OPTIONS menu builds it, its step() is pressed, StadiumRomPick reads
+-- the file with io.open (love.filesystem cannot see an absolute path),
+-- StadiumInstall builds from those bytes, and the loading screen goes up over
+-- whatever asked. A modal dialog cannot be driven, so choose() is replaced
+-- with the answer a player would have given it.
+return function(game)
+  local U = dofile("tests/drivers/util.lua")
+  local DIR = os.getenv("SHOT_DIR") or ".scratchpad"
+  local lib = game.mods.exports.DRAMATIC_SHAPE.lib
+  local Pick = lib.require("StadiumRomPick")
+  local Install = lib.require("StadiumInstall")
+  local Pack = lib.require("StadiumPack")
+  local Battles = lib.require("OverworldBattle")
+
+  U.teleport(game, "ROUTE_1", 5, 8, "down")
+  U.wait(30)
+
+  -- FIRST let the automatic first-run build finish. A ROM is sitting in
+  -- baseroms/ in this checkout, so StadiumScreen.maybePush has already pushed
+  -- a loading screen and started one -- and import() refuses to start a
+  -- second while that runs, so every step below would silently no-op against
+  -- it. maybePush asks ONCE per boot, so once this is drained it stays
+  -- drained and the purge below cannot be undone behind our backs.
+  local drain = 0
+  while (Install.pending() or Install.status.state == "building")
+        and drain < 5400 do
+    U.wait(10); drain = drain + 10
+  end
+  while game.stack:top() and game.stack:top() ~= game.overworld do
+    U.wait(10)
+  end
+  U.log(("drained the automatic first-run build in %d frames"):format(drain))
+
+  -- back to a machine that has never built them, whatever earlier runs left
+  for _, name in ipairs(love.filesystem.getDirectoryItems(Pack.CACHE_DIR)) do
+    love.filesystem.remove(Pack.CACHE_DIR .. "/" .. name)
+  end
+  Install.forget()
+  Pack.forget()
+
+  local function settle(what)
+    local waited = 0
+    while Install.status.state == "building" and waited < 5400 do
+      U.wait(10)
+      waited = waited + 10
+    end
+    U.log(("%s: %d frames (%.1fs) -- state=%s error=%s")
+          :format(what, waited, waited / 60, tostring(Install.status.state),
+                  tostring(Install.status.error)))
+    return waited
+  end
+
+  U.log(("picker available on this platform: %s"):format(
+        tostring(Pick.available())))
+  U.log(("BEFORE: models available = %s, 3D-BTL offers %d rungs")
+        :format(tostring(Install.available()), Battles.setting:rungs()))
+
+  local row = Pick.row()
+  if not row then U.log("no import row on this platform") return end
+  U.log(("row reads: %s = %s"):format(row.label, row.value()))
+
+  -- ------- the wrong file first, because a refusal must not leave a mess
+  U.log("-- picking a file that is not a Stadium ROM --")
+  Pick.choose = function() return "/not/a/real/path.z64" end
+  local realRead = Pick.read
+  Pick.read = function() return ("\x80\x37\x12\x40"):rep(4096) end
+  row.step(game)
+  settle("wrong file")
+  U.shot(game, ("%s/import_1_refused.png"):format(DIR))
+  U.log(("  still not installed: %s, row still reads %s")
+        :format(tostring(not Install.available()), row.value()))
+  U.wait(300)   -- let the failure notice time out and pop itself
+
+  -- ------- and now the real one
+  U.log("-- picking the real ROM --")
+  Pick.read = realRead
+  local abs = love.filesystem.getWorkingDirectory() .. "/baseroms/baserom.z64"
+  local picked = false
+  Pick.choose = function() picked = true return abs end
+  Install.status.state = "idle"
+  row.step(game)
+  U.log(("  choose() called: %s, state = %s, loading screen on top: %s")
+        :format(tostring(picked), tostring(Install.status.state),
+                tostring(game.stack:top() ~= game.overworld)))
+  U.wait(30)
+  U.shot(game, ("%s/import_2_building.png"):format(DIR))
+  settle("real ROM")
+  U.wait(120)
+
+  U.log(("AFTER: models available = %s, 3D-BTL offers %d rungs, row reads %s")
+        :format(tostring(Install.available()), Battles.setting:rungs(),
+                row.value()))
+  Battles.setting:setValue("stadium", game)
+  U.log(("  and 3D-BTL can now be set to STADIUM A: %s")
+        :format(tostring(Battles.setting:get() == "stadium")))
+  -- and the ROM was NOT copied anywhere: the only baserom physfs can see is
+  -- the one in the game folder this checkout already had, never a copy in
+  -- the save directory (which is where a mod's writes land)
+  local where = love.filesystem.getRealDirectory("baseroms/baserom.z64")
+  U.log(("  the only ROM on the read path is the game folder's own: %s (%s)")
+        :format(tostring(where == love.filesystem.getWorkingDirectory()),
+                tostring(where)))
+  U.log(("  the save directory has no baseroms folder: %s")
+        :format(tostring(love.filesystem.getInfo(
+                  love.filesystem.getSaveDirectory() .. "/baseroms") == nil)))
+
+  -- ------- and the wrong file, now that a GOOD set is installed
+  --
+  -- The serious case. The marker is the only thing that makes 151 files on
+  -- disk count as installed, so a refusal that writes one anyway would
+  -- UNINSTALL a working set -- and the player would have pressed a row called
+  -- STADIUM ROM, picked the wrong file, and lost the models they already had.
+  U.log("-- picking the wrong file again, with models already installed --")
+  Pick.read = function() return ("€7@"):rep(4096) end
+  Install.status.state = "idle"
+  row.step(game)
+  settle("wrong file over a good install")
+  U.wait(300)
+  Install.forget()
+  Pack.forget()
+  U.log(("  the good install SURVIVED: %s, row reads %s, 3D-BTL offers %d rungs")
+        :format(tostring(Install.available()), row.value(),
+                Battles.setting:rungs()))
+  U.log(("  and a real model still loads: %s")
+        :format(tostring(Pack.load(25) ~= nil)))
+  U.log("done -- " .. DIR)
+end